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The last qualifying day for the French Open brought two more appearances to tennis in Austria in major individual competitions. Jurij Rodionov won a duel with his compatriot Sebastian Ofner 6: 4.3: 6.6: 3 and is therefore in a large peloton for the first time.
Barbara Haas defeated Romanian Elina Gabriela Ruse 6: 4.7: 5 in the last qualifying round. US Open winners Dominic Thiem and Dennis Novak were firmly in the main competition.
While Thiem faces Croatian veteran Marin Cilic and Novak German US Open finalist Alexander Zverev in the first round, Rodionov faces Frenchmen Jeremy Chardy and Hass for the first time with Taiwanese Hsie Su-wei. If he is successful, he could face last year’s Czech finalist Marketea Vondrousova in the second round. Rodionov is in Dominic Thiem’s quarterfinals, but the Austrian duel could only take place in the quarterfinals.
By the way, with Thiem, Rodionov and Dennis Novak, the three Austrians are in the lower half of the table, so they can play their first round matches on the same day.
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